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The Download Decade Turns to Copyright

The Globe and Mail's Download Decade turns to the issue of copyright today.  The package includes a lengthy article on the issue, a global map of the copyfight, and the launch of a public wiki on copyright reform.  The wiki is an interesting initiative – the Globe plans to wrap […]

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May 18, 2009 Comments are Disabled Stop CDMCA

The Download Decade Turns to Copyright

The Globe and Mail's Download Decade turns to the issue of copyright today.  The package includes a lengthy article on the issue, a global map of the copyfight, and the launch of a public wiki on copyright reform.  The wiki is an interesting initiative – the Globe plans to wrap […]

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May 18, 2009 4 comments News

Hill Times Letters

The Hill Times runs three letters to the editor in response to Barry Sookman's column last week including one from me.

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October 30, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

A Little More Light

Barry Sookman is widely regarded as one of Canada's leading IT lawyers – for good reason given that he's the author of an important text on the area and has been actively involved in several Supreme Court of Canada cases.  Sookman and I have publicly debated one another in several fora, most recently on a DRM panel at the Future of Music Conference in Montreal (video here).  Today's Hill Times includes a column from Sookman titled Copyright Reform: Let the Light Shine In, which is framed as a reply to my Hill Times column on copyright and the environment.

While it won't come as a surprise that I disagree with much of what Sookman writes, that alone doesn't merit a follow-up posting.  

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October 23, 2006 6 comments News